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Supporting the Home Side, From Home

Supporting the Home Side, From Home

Friday, June 11, 2010 80 Comments

With today’s kick-off of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, I got to do something that I’ve never experienced before: watch a host nation open the tournament from within the host nation itself.

While U-Sector’s Kris Fernandes was in attendance at Johannesburg’s Soccer City for the South Africa versus Mexico opener – and boy, was that a great start to the tournament, or what? – I was a few thousand kilometres south west, near Cape Town, watching the match in my temporary home with my extended family.